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Film and writers\u2019 festivals, concerts, art, standup comedy, lectures, new books, art residencies and writing workshops …TMR World Picks run the gamut… <\/span>We welcome your suggestions:\u00a0editor@themarkaz.org<\/a><\/h5>\n

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Palestinian Film Festival Australia<\/b><\/h4>\n

May 1\u201311, various venues \u2014 <\/b>more info<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

The 13th <\/span>Palestinian Film Festival Australia<\/span><\/a> unveils the latest collection of films, exploring Palestinian existence, identity, struggle, and resilience. This year\u2019s lineup includes feature films and documentaries such as <\/span>From Ground Zero<\/span><\/i>, 22 short films made in Gaza by the Mashawari Fund, <\/span>A Fidai Story<\/span><\/i> about the looting and appropriation of Palestinian archives in 1982 Beirut, and the drama <\/span>The Teacher<\/span><\/i>, directed by Farah Nabulsi, among other films. The nationwide festival, with screenings in Sydney, Perth, Canberra, Brisbane, and Melbourne, takes place at a time when Palestinian cinema is under attack, in Australia. Earlier this month, a charity screening of the joint Palestinian and Israeli documentary <\/span>No<\/span><\/i> Other Land<\/span><\/i> (2024) was cancelled in Melbourne, after the cinema received complaints and threats. The charity screening organized by the Jewish Council of Australia was to raise funds in aid of the West Bank village in the documentary, Masafer Yatta, which Jewish settlers and the IDF have routinely attacked. The event\u2019s organizer Sophie Kagan talked about the canceling of the charity screening to <\/span>The Guardian<\/span><\/a>: \u201cWhat does that say about freedom of expression in Australia, that an Oscar-winning film made by an Israeli-Palestinian collective, which is being screened in Israel, is censored in such a blatant way?\u201d The fund-raiser and screening took place in another Melbourne cinema. Incidents like this make the Palestinian Film Festival Australia\u2019s purpose \u201cto build intercultural understanding and promote Palestinian life, art, and culture\u201d vitally important.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"Jonas<\/a>
Jonas Elbousty discusses Tales of Tangier<\/em> by Mohamed Choukri.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Transnational Series Hosts Jonas Elbousty<\/b><\/h4>\n

May 3, Brookline Smith, Online \u2014 <\/b>more info<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

Join this virtual event with translator <\/span>Jonas Elbousty<\/span><\/a> to discuss and celebrate the release of <\/span>Tales of Tangier<\/span><\/i><\/a> by acclaimed Moroccan author Mohamed Choukri. This collection marks the first-time translation of all the short stories by Choukri into English, and brings his remarkable work together in one volume.<\/span> \u201cChoukri is one of Morocco\u2019s most revered figures,\u201d <\/span>As Noshin Bokth, from The New Arab, has written,<\/span> \u201cTo have his words translated is to have the privilege to view the inner world of his intellect and the obscured landscapes of Tangier.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"PEN<\/a>
PEN’s Translation on the Line.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

2025 Pen World Voices Festival<\/b><\/h4>\n

Translation on the Line: Censorship, Power, and the Politics of Language<\/b><\/h4>\n

May 3, New York, US \u2014 <\/b>more info<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

Co-presented by the PEN America Translation Committee, featuring translators\u00a0Michael Eskin, Sawad Hussain,\u00a0and\u00a0Monica Cure\u00a0alongside award-winning translator and event moderator\u00a0Sandra Smith, this discussion will ask what happens when a translation threatens the status quo and what are the choices translators face when navigating political pressure, cultural sensitivities, or institutional demands. Different pressures have shaped translations throughout history, from redactions by authoritarian regimes to edits driven by publishers\u2019 fears. This discussion will explore the complex choices between creative choice, fidelity, and censorship that translators at times navigate.<\/span> Last year\u2019s PEN World Voices Festival was canceled after writers withdrew from the festival in protest of the organization\u2019s lack of response to the ongoing war and genocide in Gaza. Interestingly, when Salman Rushdie announced the first annual World Voices Festival in 2005, he criticized, \u201c<\/span>our dumbed-down, homogenized, frightened culture, under the thumbs of leaders who seem to think of themselves as God\u2019s anointed and of power as their divine right; it is harder to make such exalted claims for mere wordsmiths. Harder, but no less necessary \u2026 one has the sense of things shutting down, of barriers being erected, of that dialogue being stifled precisely when we should be doing our best to amplify it.\u201d As the deafening silence about Gaza continues writers\u2019 organizations and writers everywhere should take his words to heart.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"Gafori<\/a>
Haleh Liza Gafori launches new Rumi translation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Book Launch: <\/b>Water<\/i><\/b> by Rumi, Translated by Haleh Liza Gafori<\/b><\/h4>\n

May 6, Brookline Smith Bookstore, Massachusetts, US & YouTube \u2014 <\/b>more info<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

Water<\/span><\/a> by Rumi (NYRB Classics, 2025), serves as a sequel to Haleh Liza Gafori\u2019s earlier translations of Rumi found in <\/span>Gold<\/span><\/a> (NYRB Classics, 2022). In this new collection, also published by the New York Review of Books, Gafori presents a fresh selection of works by the great Persian mystic. Gafori is an acclaimed vocalist and musician as well as a gifted linguist and poet. Hers is the work, as the poet Marilyn Hacker has said, “of someone who is at once an acute and enamored reader of the original Farsi text, a dedicated miner of context and backstory, and, best of all, a marvelous poet in English.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"Frontline<\/a>
Frontline Club: Foreign Media Access to Gaza.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Panel discussion: Foreign Media Access to Gaza<\/b><\/h4>\n

May 6, Frontline Club, London \u2014 <\/b>more info<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

Over a year ago, more than 50 journalists and foreign correspondents signed an open letter calling on Israel and Egypt to provide “free and unfettered access to Gaza for all foreign media.\u201d It stated that the need for comprehensive on-the-ground reporting is “imperative” and deplore the fact that \u201cforeign reporters are still being denied access to the territory, outside of the rare and escorted trips with the Israeli military.\u201d Palestinian journalists and media workers have reported from inside Gaza since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas in October. Still, hundreds have been killed, injured, or gone missing. The Foreign Press Association has more recently urged Israel to lift the ban on Gaza access for all journalists. It is still impossible to report from Gaza as a foreign correspondent.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"Hassan<\/a>
Hassan Blasim and Jonathan Wright, with Basma Ghayalini.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hassan Blasim & Jonathan Wright Discuss <\/b>Sololand<\/i><\/b><\/h4>\n

May 12, Storysmith Bookshop, Bristol, UK \u2014 <\/b>more info<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

Author Hassan Blasim and translator Jonathan Wright will discuss their new collection of three Blasim novellas in <\/span>Sololand <\/span><\/i>(Comma Press, 2025), with translator Basma Ghalayini. Doors are at 18:30 with the event starting at 19:00. The event finishes at 21:00.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"Unidee<\/a>
Unidee Open Call for Artists.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Open Call: Two-month Art-research Residency,\u00a0Autumn 2025, Fondazione Pistoletto Cittadellarte Onlus,\u00a0 Biella, Italy\u00a0<\/b><\/h4>\n

May 14, deadline \u2014 <\/b>more info<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

The Ramallah-based A.M. Qattan Foundation and UNIDEE\u2014 the University of Ideas \u2014 announce\u00a0an open call for a two-month research residency at\u00a0Fondazione Pistoletto Cittadellarte Onlus in Biella, Italy for autumn 2025. <\/span>Fondazione Pistoletto Cittadellarte Onlus<\/span><\/a> is a\u00a0program of artists\u2019 residencies for art and social transformation, open to artists and professionals from all over the world. It aims at providing instruments for \u201cartivators\u201d \u2014 that is subjects working at the boundaries between artistic practices, processes of social change, and collaborations with communities external to the art world. These should weave together moments of interdisciplinary research, exchange of knowledge and practical activities. The program\u2019s objective is to provide the participants with the inspiration, motivation, strategies, and instruments to activate, develop, or strengthen artistic initiatives based on the involvement of local ecologies. The deadline to apply is May 14, 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"Iman<\/a>
Iman Mersal book talk in Brookline MA.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Book Talk with Iman Mersal<\/b><\/h4>\n

May 16, Brookline Smith, Massachusetts, US \u2014 <\/b>more info<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

Iman Mersal is set to discuss her two personal works of creative nonfiction, retracing and exploring the lives of women.<\/span> Motherhood and Its Ghosts<\/span><\/i><\/a>, (Transit Books, 2025) and <\/span>Traces of Enayat<\/span><\/i><\/a> (And Other Stories, 2024), both translated by Robin Moger. Sifting through the archives of motherhood, including journal entries, photographs, and the writings that have informed Mersal\u2019s own poetic practice, <\/span>Motherhood and Its Ghosts<\/span><\/i> privileges questions over answers and drifting over arriving. It is a\u00a0 literary approach that allows a form of motherhood to exist unbounded. Meanwhile in <\/span>Traces of Enayat, <\/span><\/i>winner of the prestigious Sheikh Zayed Book Award, Mersal retraces the mysterious life and erasure of Egyptian literature’s tragic heroine, <\/span>Enayat al-Zayyat<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"Harfoush<\/a>
The Egyptian Jazz Project with the Harfoush Jazz Band.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Egyptian Jazz Projekt: A Celebration of Halim<\/b><\/h4>\n

May 19, Holborn, London \u2014 <\/b>more info<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

Arts Canteen revives Egypt\u2019s legendary vocalist <\/span>Abdel Halim Hafez<\/span><\/a> with a performance by the <\/span>HarfousH Jazz Band<\/span><\/a>, led by Ahmed Harfoush, who is set to perform the timeless nostalgic songs of Abdel Halim Hafez from his 1950s and 1960s film and studio recordings.<\/span> Abdel Halim Hafez, also known as Al-Andaleeb Al-Asmar (The Black Nightingale), was famous beyond the Egyptian arts scene. Dubbed the \u201cKing of Arabic Music,\u201d \u201cThe Voice of the People,\u201d \u201cThe Son of the Revolution,\u201d and \u201cKing of Emotions and Feelings,\u201d his songs were masterpieces of collaborative efforts by some of the Arab world\u2019s best poets and composers.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"Muslims<\/a>
Muslims Don’t Matter: Sayeeda Warsi in Conversation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Muslims Don\u2019t Matter: Sayeeda Warsi in Conversation<\/b><\/h4>\n

May 22, The Conduit, London, UK \u2014 <\/b>more info<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

In this urgent conversation, Sayeeda Warsi, Britain\u2019s first Muslim Cabinet minister, Conservative peer, and outspoken campaigner, is set to look inside the deep-seated biases that allow anti-Muslim racism to thrive in public life, policymaking, and everyday society. From the far-right violence of 2024 to the targeting of Muslim voices during the Gaza conflict, Warsi exposes how Islamophobia has become Britain\u2019s bigotry blind spot. Along with David Baddiel, Warsi presents the podcast <\/span>A Muslim and a Jew Go There<\/span><\/i><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"The<\/a>
The Art of the Palestinian Poster exhibition in London.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

TMR Exhibition: Art of the Palestinian Poster at <\/b>P21 Gallery<\/b><\/a> \u2014 <\/b>Shubbak Festival<\/b><\/a><\/h4>\n

May 23\u2014June 14, London \u2014 <\/b>more info<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

An evocative exhibition showcases the resurgence of Palestinian political posters as powerful works of art and vital campaigning tools during the war on Gaza for <\/span>Shubbak 2025<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0Curated by TMR\u2019s literary editor Malu Halasa, the collection includes anti-war works by the original members of New Vision collective \u2014 artists fundamental to the creation of Palestinian modern art Vera Tamari, Sliman Mansour, Tayseer Barakat, and Nabil Anani \u2014 alongside contemporary posters by Gazan artist Hazem Harb, popular Lebanese musician Khaled El Haber, and Palestinian new generation poster-maker Haneen Nazzal, among many others. This collection of artful posters, originally from the Zawyeh Gallery of Ramallah and Dubai and never before exhibited in the UK, appear with posters for Palestine hacked into London bus shelters by the anonymous activist group Protest Stencil; the stark infographic posters by the decolonizing collective Visualizing Palestine; and posters that pro-Palestinian protestors downloaded from the internet, printed, and carried on demonstrations. <\/span>A poster roundtable discussion on June 11<\/span><\/a> at P21<\/span>, with Palestinian artist Vera Tamari, Visualizing Palestine\u2019s Aline Batarseh, West Bank curator Nadine Aranki, and Professor Dina Matar from SOAS Centre of Palestinian Studies, will discuss art in Palestinian resistance and the political and aesthetic impact of Palestinian political posters.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"Rotterdam<\/a>
Rotterdam Arab Film Festival.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

25<\/b>th<\/b> Rotterdam Arab Film Festival<\/b><\/h4>\n

May 28\u2013June 1, various venues in Rotterdam, Netherlands \u2014 <\/b>more info<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

The concert and multimedia performance <\/span>The Photograph Changed Me<\/span><\/i>, which opens the 25th edition of the Rotterdam Arab Film Festival, celebrates the life and legacy of the Egyptian chanteuse and cultural icon Umm Kulthum (1898\u20131975).\u00a0 The collaboration between Marmoucha Orchestra and the composer, singer, and filmmaker Toni Geitani shows off not only the singer\u2019s life \u201cbut her remarkable ability to listen,\u201d according to, the director of the Rotterdam Arab Film Festival Rosh Abdelfatah. He continues, \u201cMore than 50 years after her death, Umm Kulthum remains an indispensable part of the daily musical landscape in the Arab world.\u201d A talk before the performance, with<\/span> Geitani and author and dramaturge Willem Bruls, will examine the <\/span>Aida<\/span><\/i> story in Egyptian cinema and Western opera and representations of what has come to be known as \u201cthe Orient.\u201d After its opening night, the citywide festival continues with five days of screenings of Middle Eastern contemporary and retrospective films, music, and art.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"The<\/a>
The Markaz Review Workshop, Shubbak Festival.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Markaz Review Workshop: Writing From the Center of the World\u00a0<\/b><\/h4>\n

May 31, 10:30 a.m.\u20135:30 p.m., <\/b>Shubbak Festival<\/b><\/a>, <\/b>Arab British Center<\/b><\/a>, London\u2014<\/b>more info<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

Whether you\u2019re a seasoned or emerging writer, join TMR\u2019s daylong writing workshop that aims to inspire and empower writers to engage with the Middle East and the wider world through the lens of creative expression. During this event, you will also get a chance to meet TMR\u2019s editorial team, including editor-in-chief Jordan Elgrably, managing editor Rana Asfour, and literary editor Malu Halasa. Learn about TMR\u2019s mission to provide critical and creative perspectives on SWANA arts, and discover how TMR has become a platform for the voices of Gaza, queer fiction from the region, and literary work that challenges and reshapes perceptions of and in the region. Event highlights include an introduction to The Markaz Review (10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.), a workshop on critical writing and reviewing (12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.), a workshop on fiction and literary nonfiction (3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.), and a workshop on translation and publishing (4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.). Although the event is free, booking is essential.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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